Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

The report by the Chicago Inspector General makes it clear: Not only is ShotSpotter ineffective at combating gun violence, it also generates police harassment, bad stops and frisks, and an erosion of civil rights.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/chicago-inspector-general-police-use-shotspotter-justify-illegal-stop-and-frisks

The GEO weekly newsletter is out!
Common challenges in Native American and Black agricultural #coops, & fighting food poverty with a food subscription co-op. 🗞️

https://mailchi.mp/c35cdee359f0/common-challenges-in-cooperatives-food-subscription-co-op-pilot-project-geo-weekly-newsletter

In effect, the government is telling private operators that here is this road, godown, pipeline, or railway platform, that you can operate for 25 years.

Here @sonaliranade@twitter.com dissects the bankrupt Modi Govt's panic sales! https://m.thewire.in/article/economy/how-will-asset-monetization-help-the-government/amp?__twitter_impression=true

The Banality of Apocalypse
https://gizmodo.com/the-banality-of-apocalypse-1847528867 #climatechange #climatecrisis #globalheating #leadonclimate

Wigan Diggers' Festival
Celebrates the life and ideas of Wigan born and bred Gerrard Winstanley & the 17th Century Diggers' (True Leveller) Movement
11th September 2021
https://wigandiggersfestival.org/

Volunteers still wanted to help out with this year’s festival

seeking land stewardship research help:

last night a friend told me "indigenous people make up 5% of the world's population, and are stewards of 80% of the world's remaining biodiversity"

today I wanted to look up where this came from, to share it, and it sent me down a long research rabbit hole, of not quite finding where the 80% figure came from

don't get me wrong, I found lots of research supporting the sentiment behind the quote, that indigenous peoples have been and continue to be stewards of amazing amounts amounts of biodiversity

such as this paper, from 2019, showing that the indigenous-managed lands they looked at had even greater biodiversity than "protected lands" https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190731102157.htm

and I see the 80% figure often quoted, but I haven't been able to pinpoint where the 80% figure *originally* comes from

if you want to help me figure this out, I'll outline further where I got to, in a list of citations in the next toot

Friend made this ace #zine about the state of the environment and society in the #UK and things that people can do to improve things
Please feel free to pass on the link or print some copies 🙂
http://thebookshelf.org.uk/zine/

Apple Has Reportedly Been Scanning Your iCloud Mail for Child Abuse Images Since 2019
https://gizmodo.com/apple-has-reportedly-been-scanning-your-icloud-mail-for-1847538826 #privacy #security #apple #purism

#BenJennings on the #US withdrawal from #Afghanistan – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2021/aug/22/ben-jennings-on-us-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-cartoon

#US #Politics #Satire

"The time has come to admit we control our economy for the common good. Crucial at all times, this realisation is especially important in our current need to dodge a mass-extinction event. The invisible hand never picks up the cheque; therefore we must govern ourselves."

Image:
Thomas Hawk
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/37406127610/

CC BY-NC:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/

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It really bugs me how everyone around me (kids and wife getting back into schooling during lockdown) is constantly talking about "Zoom" this or that... I run/take part in video conferences every day but haven't used Zoom (or any other proprietary service) in well over a year.

This. I'd say open standards and open protocols are the better way to go. I'm very nervous about proprietary protocols/applications being used by our public services #what3words
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RT @TheRealRevK
@icassassin @cybergibbons @hacks4pancakes But there is no point "fixing" W3W for emergency services. Effort would be better spent ensuring they can use AML, SARLOC, etc from caller, and communicate digitally internally and to other services.
https://twitter.com/TheRealRevK/status/1429491841032937473

Ain't it the truth...

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/we-will-do-anything-to-get-you-to-work-for-us-except-pay-you-enough

Google revealed Thursday that it has received more than 20,000 geofence warrants since 2018. These warrants allow law enforcement to sweep up massive volumes of innocent people’s sensitive data. https://techcrunch.com/2021/08/19/google-geofence-warrants/